Asia

• 7 September 2010
  ASIA/NEPAL - Filters distributed to 37,000 families suffering from arsenic-contaminated water Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Aid organizations are distributing water filters to some 37,000 households in the Terai plains of southern Nepal who are being slowly poisoned by drinking arsenic-contaminated water. According ...
• 6 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods and terrorism: a nation on its knees Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "We are doing our best in this extremely difficult time for the nation. The fury of floods is intensified with the nightmare of terrorism: two disasters that strike us to the heart. There is gr ...
• 6 September 2010
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Sisters of Saint Martha celebrate 50th anniversary Hua Lien (Agenzia Fides) – Cultural pluralism and communion marked the solemn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the diocesan congregation of Sisters of St. Martha in the Diocese of Hua Lien, Taiwan ...
• 6 September 2010
  ASIA - “Koran burning” has Christians in Asia concerned Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Christians are calling it unacceptable and reprehensible: the “Koran Burning Day,” a campaign launched by Pastor Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida (USA ...
• 4 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Terrorism will not stop humanitarian aid distribution Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Terrorism will not stop humanitarian aid distribution. "Our work at Caritas goes on. We are concerned and we proceed with caution. In certain areas, including in the North, our volunteers are v ...
• 4 September 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Retreat for priests in the Diocese of Feng Xiang: striving for personal holiness in order to help others strive for holiness Feng Xiang (Agenzia Fides) – “The goal of the retreat for 2010 was for us priests to strive for personal holiness in order to help others strive for holiness. The priesthood has supernatural characteristics. When the ...
• 3 September 2010
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop's death mourned Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – This past August 28, Archbishop John Yang Shudao, Archbishop Emeritus of Fuzhou, passed away in his hometown of Toubao, in the County of Lianjiang, at the age of 91. Archbishop Yang was a ...
• 3 September 2010
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Urgent need for healthcare specialists to address maternal deaths Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – There is one doctor or midwife for every 1,000 people in Cambodia, compared with two per 1,000 in Thailand, and 12 per 1,000 in Japan. The country must increase the number of trained health ...
• 3 September 2010
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church's efforts in educating the “untouchables” Bijnor (Agenzia Fides) – There were no Christians in the Diocese of Bijnor, in northern India, until three priests arrived in 1972. According to the provincial superior of the Congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immacu ...
• 3 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society groups protest diverted flooding Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Civil society, politicians, and the media in Pakistan are raising their voices against the phenomenon of "diverted flooding" that has caused suffering and displacement for millions of poor. ...
• 2 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian and Hindu villages flooded intentionally Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – It is something that adds to the tragedy of suffering and frustration of the flooding: the poor villages, many of which are inhabited by Christian and Hindu citizens, are deliberately floode ...
• 2 September 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Catholic schools start academic year with a Mass Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic schools of the Diocese of Hong Kong have opened the new school year on September 1, with the celebration of Holy Mass. According to the results of a recent survey, the local Chu ...
• 2 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Diverted flooding”: poor and minorities suffer Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – "There are powerful and influential people with connections in government or who are in political parties: their territories have a 'priority' in being saved from the floods. The villages of t ...
• 1 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas Pakistan: urgent appeal for “female doctors to treat women” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - “In the tragedy of displacement, women are among the most vulnerable victims. The danger of diseases and epidemics is growing. Women who become ill, however, are often not accompanied by doc ...
• 1 September 2010
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Italian missionary Fr. Luigi Colombo passes away after 40 years' service in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Luigi Colombo, an Italian missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), greatly loved by the faithful of Hong Kong, has returned to the Father's house on August 22 ...